With Sir Howard Davies’s Airports Commission due to report shortly after the general election, SEGRO chief executive David Sleath makes an impassioned call for the next government to tackle the UK’s chronic shortage of airport capacity in this week’s Estates Gazette.
“Any party serious about delivering jobs, growth and economic prosperity must consider airport expansion,” he writes. “Expanding Heathrow will deliver £112bn-£211bn in economic benefits by the Airports Commission’s own estimates – by far the most significant of any of the solutions proposed.”
He continues: “We hope fervently on behalf of “UK Plc” and its economic success that Sir Howard’s Commission recommends expansion of Heathrow. And that the new prime minister about to uncork the champagne makes a bold early decision to back that vision.”
